The Ministry of Culture announced free entry into Oum Kalthoum Museum for a week starting 3 February on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the Star of the Orient’s death. Oum Kalthoum, one of the ...

The Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris is holding a special exhibit on the leading women in the Arab art secene over the past century. The exhibit started on May 19 and will go on until September 26.

The golden age of Arab cinema and music of the 20th century is being revisited through its female stars — women who became powerful symbols of feminism, Arab independence and identity. Through film ...

In my recent salon class on global divas, I featured a song called “Ala Baladi Elmahboub” which translates as “to my beloved country” from a 1936 Egyptian classic film called Widad. Umm Kulthum (her ...

Arabic popular music produced several divas in the 20th century, with each blessed with a powerful distinctive voice. Some of them included the "Egyptian Immortal" Oum Kalthoum, who dominated Arabic ...

A new exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris is celebrating the divas of the region, from Oum Kalthoum to Dalida to Fairuz. These women were not just the greatest Arab artists of the 20th ...

The Moroccan caftan has long captured global attention, embraced by royals, celebrities, and style icons from Princess ...

Former At The Drive In and Mars Volta member Omar Rodríguez-López speaks to Stevie Chick about the records that shaped his life, from Latin traditionals to how Janet Jackson got him into punk Ahead of ...

The Arab World Institute in Paris welcome “Divas from Oum Kalthoum to Dalida”. Running from May 19 to July 25, 2021, the compelling exhibition displays the greatest female Arab artists in the 20th ...